The Prayer of the Sky

1. We are happy

```

You are happy

Because

Your desire-life

Is destroyed.

He is happy

Because

His aspiration-life

Is employed.

I am happy

Because

My surrender-life

Is enjoyed. ```

2. Heart, don't treasure insecurity

```

Mind,

Don't spread suspicions.

Vital,

Don't invent calamities.

Body,

Don't brood and sleep.

Heart,

Don't treasure insecurity. ```

3. He becomes, he is

```

Unfathomed tears

In him I saw.

Unmeasured smiles

In him I see.

Divinity's vision

He will become.

Immortality's life

He is. ```

4. All these he became

```

The darkness of night,

The darkness of dawn,

The darkness of day,

The darkness of light,

The darkness of the sun:

All these he became,

Only to transcend the unreal in himself,

Feel the reality in himself,

And become the eternal in himself.

```

5. The prayer of the sky

```

The prayer of the sky

Is for the increase

Of vastness-light.

The prayer of the moon

Is for the increase

Of beauty's right.

The prayer of the sun

Is for the increase

Of duty's delight.

The prayer of God

Is for the increase

Of Compassion's might.

```

6. God's headache

```

Son, My earth's indulgence-life

And My Heaven's indifference-mind

Have given Me

A very severe headache.

Will you massage My Head

And give Me a little joy?

Father, I offer You

My perfume of promise:

I shall take away

Not only Your headache

But also Your Head

So that You can be Your Heart's

Infinite Compassion-Sea for me,

Only for me. ```

7. Perfection and faith

```

What is perfection?

Man's faith in God.

What is faith?

God's confidence in man. ```

8. God always surrenders

```

My mind is ready

To surrender to fate.

My heart has already

Surrendered to God.

My God always

Surrenders to my love. ```

9. I depend on God

```

I depend on you;

Therefore

I cry.

I depend on him;

Therefore

I sigh.

I depend on myself;

Therefore

I die.

I depend on God;

Therefore

I am revived,

Transformed

And

Immortalised. ```

10. The power of the lover

```

Surrendering is the power

Of the seeker.

Knowing is the power

Of the server,

Becoming is the power

Of the lover. ```

11 I become

```

I see and learn,

I learn and ask,

I ask and become.

I become what my Lord Supreme

Eternally is:

Perfection-satisfaction. ```

12. Mind-power, heart-power

```

A life of earth-bondage

And

A life of Heaven-freedom

Are

The powers of the desiring

And

Aspiring mind.

A life of world-perfection

And

A life of God-satisfaction

Are

The powers of the loving

And

Surrendering heart.

```

13. His life

```

The beginning of his life

Was beautiful.

The ending of his life

Was beautiful.

Only the afternoon of his life

Was slightly and

Negligibly doubtful.

```

14. I obey

```

Concentration-day tells me:

"Sit down!"

And I obey.

Meditation-night tells me:

"Lie down!"

And I obey.

Contemplation-moon tells me:

"Sleep and dream!"

And I obey.

Liberation-sun tells me:

"Fly and smile

And

Smile and fly!"

And I obey.

```

15. What will come

```

What is gone is gone:

My failure-sigh.

What is come is come:

My success-smile.

What will come will come:

My progress-cry. ```

16. I am quite surprised

```

O my love-sky,

I am your Eternity's voice.

Did you know that?

No?

I am quite surprised.

O my surrender-sea,

I am your Infinity's choice.

Did you know that?

No?

I am quite surprised.

```

17. I thought, I discovered

```

Before realisation I thought

My aspiration was

A one-man effort.

After realisation I discovered

My aspiration was

Mother Earth's inspiration and dedication

And

Father Heaven's descending Grace and Illumining Face.

```

18. What is fruitful?

```

What is fruitful?

God's descending Grace.

What is soulful?

Man's ascending face.

What is harmful?

Earth's unaspiring race. ```

19. What annoys me

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World interference annoys me.

Heaven-indifference annoys me.

My mind-preference annoys me.

My heart-indulgence annoys me.

My vital-arrogance annoys me.

My body-complacence annoys me.

My soul-assurance annoys me.

```

20. From the fallen

```

Nothing can fall

From the fallen.

Nothing can succeed

In the broken.

Nothing can harm

The chosen. ```

21. God-favour

```

From your heart-labour

Comes the flower.

From God-favour

Comes the fruit. ```

22. He succeeded

```

He cried when he was

An ignoble life.

He tried when he was

A noble soul.

He succeeded when he played

His surrender-role. ```

23. What is possible

```

What is impossible

Is impossible.

You cannot remain always

An animal-human being.

What is possible

Is possible.

Lo and behold,

You are another God. ```

24. God-ambrosia

```

By constantly begging

What I get

Is earth-water.

By constantly crying,

What I get

Is Heaven-milk.

By constantly praying and surrendering

What I get

Is God-ambrosia.

```

25. Her heart is the head

```

Her spiritual family succeeds

Not because there is one head,

But because

Her heart is the head. ```

26. To please myself

```

I surrender

To please the world.

I love

To please Heaven.

I smile

To please God.

I cry

To please myself. ```

27. The supreme Truth

```

I tell you the supreme Truth:

Even when aspiration sinks,

It rests far beyond

Desire's imagination-flight.

```

28. No explanation

```

Your speciality is:

You never complain.

His speciality is:

He never constrains.

My speciality is:

I never disdain.

God's speciality is:

He never explains.

Alas, God tells me

There is no necessity

For His explanation.

```

29. Offerings

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Love,

Offer your surrender.

Surrender,

Offer your love.

Beauty,

Offer your duty.

Duty,

Offer your beauty.

Aspiration,

Offer your transcendence.

Transcendence,

Offer your aspiration.

Promise,

Offer your goal.

Goal,

Offer your promise. ```

30. To dare

```

To dare the known,

I try.

To dare the unknown,

I cry.

To dare the unknowable,

I surrender.

To dare the Eternity's reality in me,

I become unconditionally one. ```

31. Exposed and perfected

```

He was exposed

By his own truth-seeking light.

He was perfected, revealed and manifested

By God's own

Compassion-descending Height.

```

32. I am eternally grateful

```

O heart's beauty

I am eternally grateful.

O life's duty,

I am eternally grateful.

O surrender's necessity,

I am eternally grateful.

O Perfection's immortality,

I am eternally grateful. ```

33. Inside their hearts

```

For the sake of vision-soul,

I stay inside the heart

Of Heaven.

For the sake of creation-role,

I stay inside the heart

Of earth.

For the sake of perfection-goal,

I stay inside the heart

Of the eternal Pilot.

```

34. They need

```

The Master's breath

God needs.

The Master's life

Heaven needs.

The Master's body

Earth needs.

The Master's surrender-goal

The Master needs. ```

35. My needs are hiding

```

Realisation you needed.

Where was it?

Perfection you need.

Where is it?

Satisfaction you shall need.

Where will it be?

Realisation was hiding

In your ignorance-dream.

Perfection is hiding

In your reality-dream.

Satisfaction will be hiding

In your self-giving and

God-becoming-dream.

```

36. Capacity

```

Freedom to deny God:

God gave me the capacity.

Freedom to torture earth:

Earth gave me the capacity.

Freedom to ridicule Heaven:

Heaven gave me the capacity.

Freedom to destroy myself:

I gave myself the capacity. ```

37. Four seekers

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God seeks compeers,

The Devil seeks human tears.

Man seeks consolation-room,

Earth seeks compassion-bloom. ```

38. Master's nearness

```

The disadvantage of Master's nearness,

Insincerity knows.

The advantage of Master's nearness

Sincerity discovers.

Ecstasy from Master's nearness

Surrender is. ```

39. Perfect and unattainable

```

Simple but inexplicable

God's Compassion is.

Complex but explicable

My existence is.

But perfect and unattainable

Nothing is. ```

40. Opposing qualities

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Hope, you are soulful.

Despair, you are powerful.

Fear, you are thoughtless.

Courage, you are guileless.

Hate, you are a real disgrace.

Love, indeed, you are God's Face. ```

41. Love, surrender, oneness

```

Love is fruitful in surrender.

Surrender is fruitful in oneness.

Surrender is Divinity's Vision-Soul.

Oneness is humanity's Perfection-Goal. ```

42. They smile

```

Life-vigilance

Smiles.

Heart-endurance

Smiles.

Soul-fragrance

Smiles.

God-assurance

Smiles. ```

43. How I am known

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Father-Heaven knows me

As his imperfect son.

Mother-Earth knows me

As her ignorant son.

I know myself

As a perfection-striving

And ignorance-chasing man.

```

44. Ecstasy-flood

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A desire-life

Is a life of

Undying sighs.

An aspiration-life

Is a life of

Illumining relief.

A realisation-life

Is a life of

Birthless and deathless

Ecstasy-Flood. ```

45. I am the dream

```

You dare to dream.

He hopes to dream.

I have the dream,

Heaven's illumining dream;

And

I am the dream,

God's Reality-fulfilling Dream.

```

46. My secrets

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A painful secret:

I have not seen

The Face of God.

A hopeful secret:

I need God constantly

And

Unreservedly.

An open secret:

God loves me unconditionally

And

Eternally. ```

47. The sky of illumination

```

The storm of wild emotion

You and your vital were.

The volcano of dire concentration

You and your mind are.

The sky of illumination

You and your heart shall be. ```

48. Never can I repay

```

Earth-support

I have already paid.

Earth has

My flowing concern.

Heaven-Smile

I have repaid.

Lo, my glowing dedication

Is in Heaven-Soul.

God-Compassion

Never can I repay,

Never.

```

49. My surrender

```

My love of God

Outweighs all my

Teeming imperfections.

My surrender to God

Outweighs all my

Falsifying promises.

```

50. I asked from life

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In the world of desire

I asked too much from life,

My poor life.

In the world of aspiration

I asked too much from life,

My rich life.

In the world of realisation

I asked nothing from my life,

My satisfied life.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Prayer of the Sky, Agni Press, 1974
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